MH CAMERO: The Frugal Son

Frustrated, Raymond slammed his head onto his keyboard. I can’t keep mother waiting! he thought.

Dejected after days of searching through hundreds of online classified ads without any success, he pressed on and eventually found exactly the item he needed: “For sale, one wooden casket. Barely used. $100 or best offer.”

M.H. Camero lives in southern Illinois with his beautiful wife and earns tens of dollars a year with his writing.